Life Quote by Martin J. Blaser

“The simplest explanation is that antibiotics lead to a shift in the overall equilibrium of our gut microbes. Some bugs become more dominant; others…

— Martin J. Blaser

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow…

— Andrew Weil

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being…

— Bonnie Bassler

“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon…

— Carl Zimmer

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going…

— Bonnie Bassler

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent…

— Shinya Yamanaka

Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the…

— Andrew Weil

“It’s shocking that we still tell teenagers that what they eat doesn’t have any effect on their skin and then subject them to years…

— Robynne Chutkan

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb